Credit booms gone bust: Monetary policy, leverage cycles, and financial crises, 1870-2008

American Economic Review

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1029-1061

  Schularick, Moritz ^a   Taylor, Alan M ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 84862497997     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.2.1029     Document Type: Review

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